Live Let Thrive Podcast

Send us Fan Mail JT Nicasio's company owns and manages more than 100 Airbnbs across 20 markets, charging $1,000 to $5,000 a night at 80 to 90% booked, and he isn't worried about guests skipping the dishes. He's worried about the hot tubs, saunas and kayaks. When a guest slipped by the pool at a home his team manages and sued, the signed amenity waiver and the camera footage are what ended it. The way JT reads Airbnb's new rules for bookings made on or after November 20, those waivers are gone...

Send us Fan Mail Starting November 20, Airbnb's new house rules take a lot out of the host's hands. Steve walks through the breakdown: no more rental agreements unless one of four exceptions applies (an HOA or building rule, an optional add-on like a golf cart, a stay of 28 nights or more, or a Luxe listing), no more asking guests to strip beds or take the trash out, no requiring a third-party app or Wi-Fi sign-in to get in, and no collecting phone numbers, emails, IDs or background checks. S...

Send us Fan Mail Steve was catching up with the guy who used to clean their old Dallas units when he got reminded of this one: the police called Steve asking about the guest in one of their Airbnbs just north of downtown, then kicked in the door and arrested her — she was on the run from a killing in California. The cops told the cleaner to clear the place out, and he kept the PS5 and the Bose headphones. That's the hood-rental school both hosts came up in, and they say it still beats anythin...

Send us Fan Mail Myka had Claude build a dashboard in about five minutes: every 2016-and-newer 3-bed, 2-bath-and-up house for sale in his Arkansas and Texas markets, run against HUD rents at a 7.625% rate. On the Arkansas side the screen is mostly green — a 2018-built four-bedroom in Jacksonville, right by the Air Force base, listed at $175,000 after 111 days on market, cash flows $526 a month over the payment at sticker price, and still works at 5% down. Then he flips it to Texas and the who...

Send us Fan Mail Myka pays $220 a month for AI — $200 for Claude, $20 for ChatGPT — and says it can bring in about $10,000 a month. The proof is specific: he photographed a page of Vivian Yip's The Frictionless MTR System, told Claude to apply her step-up minimum-stay method, and it pulled the PriceLabs data and set it up without him — one-night stays for the next three days, then three nights, then seven, then 14, climbing to 30. A two-night booking landed the same day a midterm guest checke...